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 Outbound Integration

Purpose

You can use this process to integrate the following outbound scenarios:

  • Direct delivery from a contract packager (CP) to a customer

  • Internal stock transfer from a CP to an entry point triggered by stock transport order (STO)

Process Flow

The standard CP processing is split into the following portions:

  • Supplier CP

  • CP-entry point (EP) part

The sales orders on the EP side are usually the trigger for SAP SCM/APO to generate a CP/EP stock transfer operation. However, depending on the lead time restrictions deployment of SAP SCM/APO is also allowed to change a planned customer delivery from EP to CP. In this case a direct customer delivery occurs.

Direct delivery from a contract packager (CP) to a customer

  1. SAP CRM owns the sales orders, and asks the available to promise (ATP) in SAP SCM/APO for sourcing

  2. ATP makes the source decision, creates the route plan, and reserves the stock at the source location.

  3. If CP is involved, the source location could be a materials requirement planning (MRP) area CP location.

    SAP SCM/APO then maps this location to a business partner, and sends this to SAP CRM.

  4. SAP CRM internally translates this business partner to a MRP area internally, converts it into a plant and storage location while replicating to the ERP system, and creates the unchecked outbound delivery for this plant and storage location.

  5. The ERP system forwards this unchecked delivery to SAP EWM as a forecasted delivery.

  6. The ERP system bundles unchecked deliveries, based on certain criteria, and asks the ATP in SAP SCM/APO again for approval.

  7. ATP checks the stock at the source location, makes the route plan, and confirms the unchecked deliveries to checked deliveries.

  8. The ERP system then forwards the checked deliveries to SAP EWM for goods issue processing.

Internal stock transfer from CP to an entry point triggered by stock transfer order (STO)

The shipment of materials from the supplier to a CP implicitly changes the ownership to the plant (EP) to which the CP belongs. Additionally, a second shipment is needed to transfer materials from the CP warehouse to the plant-related warehouse. This second step is initiated by SAP SCM-APO deployment based on visible stocks on the CP side.

  1. SAP SCM-APO creates a stock transport order and sends it to the ERP system by means of the core interface (CIF) interface

  2. The ERP system generates a checked outbound delivery based on this order

  3. The outbound delivery is transferred to SAP EWM

  4. SAP EWM generates a WHR based on the outbound delivery

  5. SAP EWM performs a goods issue and sends this data to the ERP system

  6. The ERP system posts the goods issue that leads to a generation of an advanced shipping notification (ASN)

The subsequent inbound process is comparable to an inbound process based on supplier-ASN, except for the dispatching part to SAP ICH.

For more information about the outbound processes, see Outbound Process .